Ready to Roll is set just about entirely within Miguel's shotgun house in Houston. I love the history of shotgun houses, how well-suited to the (less than hospitable sometimes) climate of the city they are.

It was a lot of fun to use one as the stage across which Miguel and Janice move during their date. Made me want to move in to a shotgun house of my own! I bet my pets would love racing through from front to back doors, maniac pets that they are.

Oh, y'all! My first novella is just about published! I'm pleased as punch (I don't know why punch is so particularly pleased-prone, but who am I to rain on punch's parade?)

You can check out (and pre-order) Ready to Roll via my Books page, but what you really should be doing is just sitting back and admiring the cover. Am I a bad book mama if I think my second cover by the Killion Group is even snazzier than my first? Is it just the lure of the shiny and new?

Regardless, this cover makes my heart sing, and I hope you find the story lives up to it, when you read the novella (you will read it, right? I mean, not if you're my brothers or my sons, at least not past Chapter 8, but the rest of you? Thanks!)